science
“Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.”
“There's plenty of room at the bottom.”
“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
“If you think this universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”
“I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.”
“I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.”
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.”
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.”
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”
“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.”
“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”